Improvement Really ?

wlayton, Pretty much agree with every thing you said.
Defense has gotten us to where we are.
We are finally running the ball.
Attitude, no where to go but up.
Concerns:
OL, as you say somewhat average at best.
Field Goals, Walsh goes from one of the best to one of the worst.
Murray, he needs to understand his strengths and limitations.
The first true test of our improvement level will be Saturday.

Wlayton, I agree with everything. I have enjoyed watching this team after the 1st game of the year. I will be honest, I am proud of how they have responded. Are they better? I watched a team last year play usc, and they almost appeared to be scared. Not this year. Yeah, we lost, but we took the fight to usc. I thought in that was one of better coached games I have seen. I know many believe any time we turn the ball over, or someone hits a play on us, it is solely on the coaches, but I don't. The onside kick call was perfect. All except for Rambo getting a little to excited. It happens. It was still a great decision. I mean, we scored freaking 42pts. Play calling couldn't have been that bad.

I see much more of a team this year. FG team has got to get better. I know most hate the FG, but points in the SEC are points. Look at what the scores would have been if we made the kicks. We had the best kicker in the country coming in. I still think he has one of the best legs, just has to dial in.

Go DAWGS

Yep and yep (to averagedawg and AD5)

Concerning the offense, half time adjustments, and Mike Bobo...

Journey back to 2009 and the Kentucky debacle. Shortly after that game, this article appeared
courtesy of The Bleacher Report. I cut out the stuff about the defense.. WM is gone.. water
under the bridge, but look at what the writer had to say about Bobo, half time adjustments, and
the state of our offense in general..

"This past weekend Kentucky head coach Rich Brooks and his staff schooled the Bulldog staff during halftime. While Georgia’s offense ran successful toss sweeps and bootleg passes, the Kentucky coaches, I have to assume, were busy taking notes and looking for ways to counter Georgia’s offense. In fact, I am sure that the Wildcat coaches were able to pick up one or more keys to Georgia’s offensive plays. I know that I did. During the half, while Kentucky’s coaches were coaching the defense and giving keys to the plays that had hurt them in the first half, I suppose our coaches were patting players on the backs and drinking sports drinks. I will give you the keys that I saw and the negative consequences for our Dawgs in just a moment. Halftime is over and so down by multiple scores, Kentucky kicks off and forces a turnover; can’t blame the Georgia players or coaches for a great hit. I can blame the Georgia DC for not coming up with something to keep the Cats for scoring. I can blame the Georgia special teams’ coaches for not teaching better ball security. Turnovers are a large problem at Georgia. Anyway, Kentucky scores and the Dawgs are now facing a renewed foe. Question is how will UGA ready the offense to continue marching up and down the field just as the offense did in the first half? I can tell you that Georgia made no adjustments that I noticed. Kentucky made adjustments: recall when Georgia successfully ran bootlegs and toss sweeps in the first half? Kentucky spied the blocking scheme used by Georgia on both plays; thus, Georgia’s two best plays are now no more. How so? On the toss sweep, the Georgia off-side offensive lineman did not block the defensive end or linebacker nearest him—the off-side lineman broke a path straight to an interior backer, ignoring the defensive end. The defensive end will normally make a read on all plays away from him so that he is not set up for a cut-back play. Like most competent offensive coordinators, all good plays have companion plays with varied blocking assignments and alignments to keep the defense honest. Not Georgia. So when Joe Cox turned to make a pitch early in the third quarter, the off-side Kentucky defensive player shot straight towards Cox and deflected the pitch. Do you ever recall any QB having a toss deflected by an off-side defensive player? As for the bootleg pass plays that worked so well in the first half, I am not sure what happened because the Georgia offense seem to be shut down by the second half adjustments made by the Kentucky defensive coaches. Mike Bobo is not a bad coach. Mike Bobo is an INEXPERIENCED OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR TRAINING while ON THE JOB IN ATHENS, GEORGIA. Mike Bobo will make a fine high school head coach. Mike Bobo has not business calling plays for the University of Georgia. Very few times do you see Georgia put together a complete game? "

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So here we sit... in 2011 talking about the exact same thing.. How our offense gets turned off
in the second half. I understand our line issues this season, but funny how we saw the exact
same thing was happening in 2009.

The writer concludes with this...

"Mark Richt has reached his UGA nadir and it is all downhill for the program at this point. It is time for Mark Richt to leave or to be fired and to take his coaches with him, save Rodney Garner. I would rather offer the job to Derek Dooley at LaTech before suffering another unproductive season of football under Mark Richt. I have no confidence in Mark Richt to make the hard decisions:

· Change defensive coordinators and philosophy (Kirby Smart? Will Muschamp?)

· Hire a new Strength and Conditioning coach with a winning philosophy

· Hire an offensive coordinator without ties to Florida State

· Hire the best Special Teams coach available

I know how sick all of you must feel—and I the same as you. And I apologize for taking so long to explain what most of you already know. It is my assessment that Mark Richt should be fired. The University of Georgia is a very high profile job and will attract many qualified coaches. This time, maybe the University will not hire the first person that is interviewed but will instead allow several fine coaches to make a pitch to bring greatness to UGA and to take the University of Georgia program to where it deserves to be and should be every single year---a threat to win the Southeastern Conference and play for the National Championship."

Source material
bleacherreport.com/articles/296095-the-d...head-coach/show_full

averagedawg wrote: wlayton, Pretty much agree with every thing you said.
Defense has gotten us to where we are.
We are finally running the ball.
Attitude, no where to go but up.
Concerns:
OL, as you say somewhat average at best.
Field Goals, Walsh goes from one of the best to one of the worst.
Murray, he needs to understand his strengths and limitations.
The first true test of our improvement level will be Saturday.

I know I'm draggin my dead horse out again, but here goes...I've said a number of times on here that the way to win in the SEC is to establish the run on offense (we're finally doing that...even if it is a half at a time), stop the run on defense (we're definitely doing that so far), and play solid special teams. The argument can be made that we've regressed a little in this area, specifically field goals, but otherwise I'd way marked improvements have been made in 2 of the 3 areas from last year. Am I thrilled with where we are, win-loss record or otherwise? No, but I'm a hell of a lot happier than I was on October 4th, 2010!

Good article, wart. Accurate, and a few of us were making those same points even a couple of years before that was written.